Jean Chen Ho Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Jean Chen Ho on XJean Chen Ho is an author. Author of FIONA AND JANE (now out in paperback!) 📚 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Skidmore College 📝 she/her/tā

A Burst of Light and Other Essays
Audre LordeI’ve been reading A BURST OF LIGHT & Other Essays this week for soul nourishment
Hardcover, 2017
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edinburgh
Alexander CheeThe people at my residency are reading: a book about salmon, Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres, Alexander Chee Edinburgh, and Claudia Rankine Just Us
Paperback, 2016
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heartbroke
Chelsea BiekerBieker offers an unsentimental view of the hardscrabble lives of the white working class in a less romanticized region of California.
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Not Quite Dark: Stories
Dana Johnson@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories
Paperback, 2016
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elsewhere, California
Dana Johnson@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories
Paperback, 2012
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Valleyesque: Stories
Fernando A. FloresSuch a pleasure to read and review these three new story collections for @nytimesbooks: Chelsea Bieker’s HEARTBROKE, Fernando A. Flores’s VALLEYESQUE, and Erica Plouffe Lazure PROOF OF ME😍🤓☺️ https://t.co/sYjttLedkE
Paperback, 2022
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sarahland
Sam CohenToday is the publication day for Sam Cohen’s SARAHLAND! 🥳🦄💖💐 I’m very excited for this story collection and tonight’s @skylightbooks event with Sam and Nikki Darling❤️ You should read this book if you’re into stories about smart funny strange sexy queer femmes✨✨✨ https://t.co/H9T4vQpbbJ
Paperback, 2022
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Read Now: Essays
Elaine CastilloFinished HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo and there’s so many good things but let me tell you I was SOBBING at the chapter on Asian films & how she describes Chang Chen’s character in HAPPY TOGETHER caring for heartbroken Tony Leung, the scene with the tape recorder😭 https://t.co/W82ySFmpCZ
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen@kirstin_chen I’ll bring you a Chanel rapid test at the Counterfeit reading😹
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson@vauhinivara Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson is so amazing for this
Paperback, 2023
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book